Wide Awake Festival add Young Fathers and more to 2024 line-up
Squid, Ben UFO and more will also join headliners King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard in London's Brockwell Park next summer.
London’s Wide Awake Festival has added a host of new names to its line-up for 2024, led by Young Fathers.
The festival, which began in 2021 after a COVID-delayed opening, will return to south London’s Brockwell Park on May 25 next year.
Alongside previously announced headliners King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard, the festival will now welcome the likes of Squid, Ben UFO, Alice Glass, Crumb, BODEGA, Charlotte Adigery and Bolis Pupul and more.
See the full line-up so far below. Tickets are on sale here now.
In a five-star review of Young Fathers’ recent show at London’s Hammersmith Apollo, Rolling Stone UK said: “Like few other bands out there, Young Fathers believe that intensity and melody can exist side-by-side. Recent single ‘I Saw’ is a pummelling barrage of sludgy riffs, but its sweetly sung chorus then redresses the balance. It’s the same on closing track ‘Toy’, which explodes into a frenzied blast of noise but retains enough pop edge to be danceable as well as gut-trembling. “Are you with us?” Hastings asks the crowd between these two songs, but the fact that the line is delivered half-way through a rapturous five-minute standing ovation means he surely knows it’s rhetorical.”